GOD BLESS AMERICA

‘A lot of your folks in the national media, they get very sensitive’

“O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.”  ^{Psalms 95:6 (KJV)} 

A TV news reporter for a CBS affiliate got schooled by Ron DeSantis on Monday when he pressed the Florida governor about a recent joke in which the Republican referred to the Biden administration as “the Brandon administration.”

“Do you feel that that is the proper level of exchange between a governor and a president?” Jay O’Brien of WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida, asked DeSantis.

“Well, let me ask you how he’s treated us. Well, look, I think it’s a joke but honestly, one of the reasons why that has taken on is because a lot of your folks in the national media, they get very sensitive to it,” DeSantis said. “Because what happened was people were chanting something else very colorful.”

O’Brien interjected: “It’s a swear about the president.”

DeSantis continued: “You had a reporter though, say it was ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ when that’s not really what was said.

“And so I think the reason why it’s caught on is because I think it needles the national media a little bit because look, they’ve become very partisan. They were very much against Trump, they’re very much ahead of Biden, so I think we view it as fun.”

“But it’s a swear about the president,” O’Brien insisted again.

“Well, right, but I mean here’s what I would say,” responded DeSantis.

“Was there hand wringing about this about the stuff that was said about Trump for four years? No, there wasn’t.”

The “Let’s Go, Brandon” chant became a national phenomenon when NBC reporter Kelli Stavast tried to cover up the mantra of fans at a NASCAR rac…